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Electoral evaluation of 2024: more disinformation and less capacity to combat it

Although for years various academic and governmental institutions, think tanks and specialists have been working to design measures to combat disinformation, the mechanisms to influence elections are becoming increasingly sophisticated.

Trump: a spokesman for anger

These types of politicians are endearing, not because their voters expect significant changes in the substantive aspects of their lives, but because their main function is to punish the establishment.

Is advancing hydrocarbon exploitation a risk for Argentina?

Little is mentioned about the financial risks to the country, and even less about the existential threat to humanity posed by continuing reliance on oil.

Peace and Nature: Reflections from Imperfection

COP16 brought to the debate on biodiversity conservation discussions and reflections that have been addressed by the field of study called “environmental peace building”.
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Climate change

Goodbye winters?

With radical changes in climate, our habits, perceptions, and reactions to the causes should change. But is that what public opinion data tell us?

Why should we talk about climate justice?

The notion of climate justice brings to the table the unequal historical and present responsibilities of countries, companies, and individuals regarding the climate crisis.

Brazil: an environmental disaster foretold

Southern Brazil is underwater. What was exceptional is now part of the new normal. Adaptation, climate emergency plans and the valuation of ecosystems must be incorporated into policy. It is about the world we will leave to our sons and daughters.

Democracy challenges

Precarious states

In Latin America, the absence of state control—or, if preferred, the state’s precarious capacity to delineate its territory and exercise sovereignty under international treaties—is stark.

Democracy is in decline in Latin America. Is it possible to reverse it?

There is a consensus. Rescuing democracy requires strengthening the institutions that are its pillars, which in turn depend on a society that trusts them.

Can there be democracy without political parties?

The centrality and control that political parties have over the decisions made in the executive, legislative and judicial branches makes it difficult for them to receive the respective corrective measures.

Venezuela and Latin America, democracy, chaos, and...

It's not just democracy versus dictatorship at stake in the Venezuelan crisis. It encompasses the trajectories of the region as a theater for great power competition or as a collective of countries and governments capable of unified action.

Disinformation

Fraud is not usual, but conspiracy theories are

Coauthors Luciana Fernandes Veiga and Vitória Peres Questioning the fairness of the process is legitimate. However, what has been observed is the use of this discourse as a political strategy to delegitimize the electoral result.

Elections 2024: the risks of disinformation

The risk of polarization is that it generates a social fracture that could lead us to an all-or-nothing result. The vote would not be for the support or rejection of a political platform, but a tool to silence those voices with which we differ.

RT: Disinformation without borders

Twenty-first century democracies cannot ignore the lessons of Cold War disinformation campaigns, reformulated by their autocratic enemies in the current digital age.

Stigmatization, Disinformation and Conflict 

Social networks have facilitated an extensive production of inaccurate or false information that is reproduced in society and endangers the lives of social leaders.
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